The Department of Europe is proud to announce its new program to help support the National Home for Children. As in the days of the crusades we are asking you to lift up the fight to support our National Home. Your Life Membership in the Crusader Program will demonstrate that you are prepared to fight the fight once again for the children. Life members will receive a membership card, certificate, patch and pin.

Download the crusader application (word), fill it out, send it in and then feel good knowing that you just helped the children and families at the National Home. When you join you will receive this well designed "Crusaders for the VFW National Home" pin to show that you care.

~The Oaths of the Knight~

Chivalry was the strict code knights obeyed to be religious, honorable, and courteous. Chivalry required that knights be brave, loyal, and just, speak only the truth, be fair to their enemies, help people in distress, protect women, and show mercy to the weak and defenseless. To never harm women or children.

• Thou shalt respect all weaknesses, and shalt constitute thyself the defender of them.
• Thou shalt love the country in which thou wast born.
• Thou shalt not recoil before thine enemy.
• Thou shalt make war against the Infidel (those who attack the weak and the poor) without cessation, and without mercy.
• Thou shalt never lie, and shalt remain faithful to thy pledged word.
• Thou shalt be generous of spirit.
• Thou shalt be everywhere and always the champion of the Right and the Good gainst Injustice and Evil.
• The Most Important Knightly Oath -- A knight was forbidden to ever harm a woman or child. He could not stand by and allow a woman or child to be harmed.